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Thursday, January 21st, 2016
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
"Microcircuits for Short-Term Memory Storage and Neural Integration"
Mark Steven Goldman, Professor, HHMI Professor, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior; Ophthalmology and Vision Science,
4:40pm – 6:00pm
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CMA Presents The Power of Stories and Symbols

JPL
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Chapman

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Christopher Umans - Algorithmic Magic: Behind the Scenes of Modern Computer Science

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:30pm – 10:30pm
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Beginner International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
8:30pm – 11:00pm
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West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, January 21st, 2016
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CANCELLED - Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
11:40am – 1:00pm
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CMA Presents The Power of Stories and Symbols

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Reading Women

Keith Spalding 118
Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness by Ariel Gore
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Schlinger 101
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Sulfotransferase Inhibitors for Studying the Biology of Chondroitin Sulfate
Sheldon Cheung, Mr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
2:30pm – 5:00pm
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Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Final Round

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

An affine deformation of the quantum cohomology ring of flag manifolds and the periodic Toda lattice
Leonardo Mihalcea, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Virginia Tech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Polymeric tools to manipulate innate immunity: Probing a code without a key
Aaron Esser-Kahn, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

TBA
Preston Wake, Assistant adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Quantum Information
Stefan Leichenauer, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Experimental Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Hybrid organic/nanocrystal films for solid-state, non-coherent, infrared–visible photon conversion
Mark W.B. Wilson, Ph.D., Center for Excitonics and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Conformal blocks from AdS
Per Kraus, UCLA,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
"Singlet Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transition"
Peter Winslow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213
Pseudorandomness via the Discrete Fourier Transform
Raghu Meka, UCLA,
1:30pm – 3:00pm
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Innovation in Aerospace - An Idea 2 Innovation Event

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

East Bridge 114
Bridging theory and observations - Fundamental physics with cosmological surveys
Elisabeth Krause, Postdoctoral Scholar, KIPAC, Stanford University/SLAC,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Navigating Chaos: Applications of Dynamical Systems Theory to Astrodynamics and Celestial Mechanics
Natasha Bosanac, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA
Ian Zemke, Research Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock
Boris Braverman, Graduate Student, Vladan Vuletić Group, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
"HIdden Sector Shining the Light: Gamma-Ray Excess and Diphoton Excess"
Jiang-Hao Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Global seismic tomography for event monitoring and the discovery of ancient subducted plate
Nathan Simmons, Lawrence Livermore National Lab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A New Therapeutic Strategy for Hedgehog Pathway-Dependent Cancers
Alison Ondrus, Department of Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 23rd, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at Chapman

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming and Diving) Caltech vs. La Verne

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Sunday, January 24th, 2016
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Intermediate International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Monday, January 25th, 2016
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Motivic vector bundles on P^n
Aravid Asok, Associate Professor, Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Research Conference

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Structure of the Nuclear Pore Complex
Andre Hoelz, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Division of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Stefano Fusi, Professor, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Nitrification revisited with single cell tools
Michael Wagner, Head of Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays
Chiara Mingarelli, Caltech,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Reading Seminar

Ehrenfeuct-Fraisse Games
Jalex Stark, Student, Caltech,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Learning Seminar

The motivic Galois group of Abelian varieties of potential CM type
Majid Hadian, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathemaatics, Caltech,
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Real-Time Bayesian Analysis of Ground Motion Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning
Gokcan Karakus, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Quantum Computing: Transforming the Digital Age
Krysta Svore, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Monsters in the Dark: Glimpsing the High-Energy Signatures of Black Hole Formation with Multimessenger Astronomy
Alex Urban, Physics, U Wisconsin Milwaukee,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
NO SEMINAR One Entangled Evening Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Alice Shapley, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CEMI Lecture

Kerckhoff 119
Innovation by Evolution: Expanding the Enzyme Universe
Frances Arnold, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Population Explosion: Understanding the Populations of Hot Jupiters, Black Holes, Earth-like Exoplanets, and (Eventually) LIGO Sources
Will Farr, University of Birmingham,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Clocks to weigh Beyond Standard Model Physics: Muon g-2 and the Neutrino Mass Scale
Martin Fertl, Univeristy of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A world from a sheet of paper
Tadashi Tokieda, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow, Cambridge/Stanford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Titan's Magic Islands: Transient Features in the Hydrocarbon Seas
Jason Hofgartner, Dr, JPL,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Gesture Recognition

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Pamela Z, Composer/Performer/Media Artist,
Morteza Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories; Vice Provost, Caltech,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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One Entangled Evening: A Celebration of Richard Feynman's Quantum Legacy

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Quantum Summit

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Martin Luther King Jr Celebration Keynote

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Phase diagram of quantum spin systems with S=1 and SU(2)-invariant interactions
Daniel Ueltschi, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Warwick,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "Scientific Authoring with LaTeX and Overleaf"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Highlights from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS)
Tommaso Treu, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Stochastic dynamical systems and seasonal climate dynamics
Woosok Moon, Herchel-Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
When Twins Collide: adventures in nanocrystals
David Srolovitz, Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania ,